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Votes for the SNP are more about small-minded nationalism than the values of the progressive left.
Thats hardly fair or accurate. Nicola Sturgeon spent most of the campaign talking against austerity. The SNP did away with university fees and are phasing out the right to buy to ensure affordable housing stock for lower income families. One of their 'red lines' was the ending of Trident. How is any of that not progressive left? I didnt see a single Labour MP make one fucking noise about saving money on removing nuclear weapons, and that money being ploughed back into other things like the NHS or schools. Maybe thats why they lost so big in Scotland.
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I'd struggle to define the Lib Dems as left of centre when they've just spent five years facilitating a Tory government and passing nasty right of centre laws, but they're a politically spent force now anyway. Votes for the SNP are more about small-minded nationalism than the values of the progressive left.
I'm all for electoral reform, and voted for it myself, but that ship has sailed.
Also 9 million Tories plus 3 million UKIP = 12 million...